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Title: Job Prospects and Pay Gaps: Theory and Evidence on the Gender Gap from U.S. Cities

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Are differences in the quality of workers prospects outside of their current employment relationship influential in generating pay differentials? We consider the role of an economys industrial structure in generating differences in outside prospects, and apply our analysis to the gender pay gap in the U.S. during the 1980-2010 period. We develop a formal search and matching model that connects outside prospects, industrial structure and wage gaps and use it to guide our subsequent empirical analysis of local labor markets. Our results suggest that an economys within-industry gender pay gapwhich also controls for human capital characteristicsis substantially influenced by gender differences in the quality of outside prospects generated by the economys industrial structure. Our analysis reveals that the relatively sharp narrowing of the gender pay gap during the 1980s is accounted for by the relatively sharp decline in the outside prospects of men during this period.

Url: http://www.sfu.ca/econ-research/RePEc/sfu/sfudps/dp16-14.pdf

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Authors: Bidner, Chris; Sand, Ben

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Publication Number: 16-14

Institution: Simon Fraser University

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Publisher Location: Burnaby, British Columbia

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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